Gego; Between Transparency and the Invisible

by Mari Carmen Ramírez, Catherine de Zegher, Robert Storr, and Josefina Manrique

• ISBN13: 9780300116342
• ISBN10: 0300116349
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-06-15
• Publisher: Other Distribution

Summary

Latin American artist Gego (19121994) produced a range of line-based abstract work, including drawings, prints, and wire sculptures. Focusing on a rare series of monotypes from the early 1950s, drawings and prints, and "drawings without paper" and "tejeduras" (woven paper pieces) of the late 1970s and 1980s, this fascinating book traces Gego's exploration of line and space. Gego used lines as conceptual and visual tools to create in-between spaces within her works. Whether drawing lines on paper or projecting them into space, the artist sought to "make visible the invisible." She believed that line could express what is not physically present in natureincluding thought, intuition, and emotions. By manipulating the density of the lines or by interrupting them, she brought light, shadow, and feeling into her linear works.

Author Biography

Mari Carmen Ramírez is Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her publications include Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America (Yale). Josefina Manrique is Executive Director of the Fundación Gego in Caracas, Venezuela. Catherine de Zegher is Director of the Drawing Center, New York.

Table of Contents

The Evanescent Quality of Gego's Art	p. 12
Gego at Malba	p. 14
A Multidimensional Chess Game	p. 16
Essays	p. 21
Between Transparency and the Invisible: Gego's in-Between Dimension	p. 22
Gego's Traces of Traces	p. 50
Something's Got to Give	p. 78
Plates	p. 99
Line on Paper and Without Paper Chronology	p. 201
Checklist	p. 248
Selected Bibliography	p. 252
Essayists	p. 255
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